Vintage-Inspired Journal Tutorial

The kids and I have been busying ourselves with a few summer crafts. I’m determined to encourage their creativity over the summer. We’ve been drawing, painting, creating little origami animals, and making journals to record our fun summer adventures in.

The girls decorated their journals using the supplies we’d gathered – markers, colorful paper, glittery stickers, and glitter glue. So much fun! Art supplies in hand, the girls bent over their craft projects, pouring all the love, glitter, and personal flair they could muster into transforming their boring composition books into fun, personal journals.

I had some fun of my own by creating a little journal for myself. I want to join the girls in recording our summer adventures.

DIY Vintage-Inspired Journal

Creating your own vintage-inspired journal is super easy and fun. You’ll need a few scraps of fabric, magazine clippings, and textured paper.

Bind textured sheets of paper to create pages for your journal, or make your own tea stained paper with the help of my easy-to-follow tutorial. Use scraps of fabric or magazine clippings to create a fun collage cover. Make the journal your own – choose textures and patterns that reflect your personal style.

I’ll be recording our summer adventures along with my girls in my new vintage-inspired summer journal. Between family outings, personal craft projects, and the Nurture Photography Challenge, we’ll have lots to fill our pages with this summer.

That is a lovely journal, you've made, Kristi! I have loads of magazines to use for this journal cover, and will make the tea-stained papers to it - maybe to glue some Photos from the coming Summer Nurture Challenge :-)

Hi Shenali! I bound the pages with staples because I was completely lazy. You can totally sew them if you'd like, though. I also used a thicker card stock for my cover, though you could easily use regular copy paper. And for my journal I used 16 pages. You can use as many as you'd like. :)